Category Archives: CCM

Just a quick usual disclaimer for whenever I do Italian cooking here – if your beloved Grandma from the sun-scorched hills in Umbria (or wherever) did this differently, this is not an attempt to cast spells on your family 😉 … Continue reading →

Exchanged a Christmas gift for this shiny beauty 🙂 It said: “Caution, contains sharp items” on the box. No sh*t, Sherlock… OK, it is just one blade. But it made me think of Dire Straits’ ” Six Blade Knife” anyway. … Continue reading →

I now have a cast iron pan. And after using it only three times, I’m thinking of it’s predecessors – If you, if you could return Don’t let it burn Don’t let it fade I’m sure I’m not being rude … Continue reading →

Hey – it’s been a while without CCM posts, hasn’t it? Don’t worry – the family has eaten in all the time that has passed since I last did some cooking stuff here 😉 Today I’m not doing a full … Continue reading →

Like so many other Danish staples or classic recipes, “leverpostej” or “liver paste / pate” involves pigs – well, pork – and is best eaten with a cold beer alongside. And, just to get the disclaimers out of the way: it … Continue reading →

Up here, it would have been nice with a picture of the dish, wouldn’t it? Something digitally bad happened to it, though – and the leftovers aren’t really photogenic. So, no. Instead, you’re having a picture of fenugreek seeds – … Continue reading →

I swear, we haven’t been doing this “light” thing religiously – whether since Christmas or just since post XXXIII. It just so happened… Anyway, today ended up being light fare with a salad based on what was on the … Continue reading →

We don’t do New Year Resolutions in this household. And we actually also know that the problem is not what you eat between Christmas and New Year but what you eat between New Year and Christmas… So when we decided … Continue reading →

We were 5 couples for New Year at our house yesterday – and between us dished up with all sorts of delicious food. The starter was crayfish – of some freshwater variant that one of the guests had even caught locally … Continue reading →

This critter doesn’t look a lot like spaghetti, I’ll grant you. But it’s called a spaghetti squash – because once it’s baked in the oven, I am supposedly pulling a fork through it – and it’ll turn up as … Continue reading →

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